Revolving clothes-rack



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REVOLVING CLOTHES RACK.

Patented June 16, 1885.

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CHARLES FREDERICK BUEI'ILER, OF SPENCERVILLE, OHIO.

REVOLVING CLOTH ES-RACK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 320,046, dated June 16, 1885.

Application filed June 16, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, CHARLES F. BUEHLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Spencerville, in the county of Allen and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Revolving Clothes-Rack, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention has relation to clothes-racks for drying clothes in the open air; and it has for its object to provide a device of the class referred to that shall be simple in construe tion, convenient, and durable; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a view in perspective of a clothes-rack embodying my improvements; and Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view through post, shaft, casting, and arms of the clothes-rack.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, A designates the post, which is either set firmly in the ground or fixed firmly to a base, 13, in the form of the frustum of a pyramid let into the ground and firmly embedded therein. The post A is provided with a vertical longitudinal bore, C, and the base B has a seat, D, in its center, in which the lower end of an iron rod, E, is stepped. The bottom of the seat D is n1etal-iaced, and the iron rod E is passed down through the bore C of the post and rests on the metal-faced bottom of the seat. The iron rod E is about threefourths of an inch in diameter, and should extend above the top of the post from eighteen inches to two feet, in proportion to the length of the bars of the frame of the rack. A cruciform casting, E, with a central hole, G, to permit the casting to be slipped over the iron rod, rests on the top of the post A, and upon the arms of the casting are bolted four wooden bars, H, of any desired length, and one and one half by one and one-half inch square. These bars H are bored laterally through at suitable intervals, as at I, and through the holes I the clothes-line J is passed. Upon the top of the rod E is provided a thimble, K, having an annular laterally-extended flange, L, at its lower end. This flange L is perforated, and to it are connected four stay-rods, M, which extend to and are connected with the ends of the bars H by bolts or otherwise. By this construction the rack-frame can be revolved upon the iron rod, and when the weight of clothes upon the rack is very great the rod itself may be revolved in its seat.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

The combination of the base having the central seat provided with the met-alfaced bottom, the hollow post, the rod stepped in the seat of the base, passing through the hollow post and projecting above the upper end thereof, the cruciform casting resting on the post and pivoted on the projecting end of the rod, the laterally-bored bars secured to the casting, the line passed through the holes in said bars, the flanged thimble pivoted on the upper end of the projecting rod, and the stay rods secured to the flange of the thimble and the ends of the bars, substantially as described. In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES FREDERICK BUEIILER. \Vitnesses:

EDWARD G. Srcenns, WiLMo'r L. HARRIS. 

